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Use include_once instead of include or require :-)

I also would like to know how to populate this table with data...

Anyone?

Someone mentioned earlier that classes make it easier to add functionality to someone else's code. It was pretty easy for me to add a doctype selector function to a copy of the PEAR::HTML_Page class, easier than I thought it would be.

Back To Class This brief article is the best explanation of OOP and PHP that I've ever seen. You can read the article here .

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October 05, 2000 - Classes and objects are powerful OOP concepts - and PHP4 supports them too. This article explains some basic OO entities (including classes, constructors and extensibility) with examples of a table builder and a guestbook.

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I am curious about how using OOP affects performance. I realize (from programming in C++) how it can make programming much simpler, but in C++, the program is optimized by the compiler. So there is little affect of performance.

Isn't PHP interprented line by line? Will have many complex objects slow down performance?